Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wo n't divulge what , but ‘ it affects my appearance , too ’ , and he points to his new haircut , a welcome improvement on Adrian 's slightly leftover hippie look . |
| 2 | He delves into his portable coolbox and fishes out an ice cool can of lager . |
| 3 | Maybe he seeks a more thrustful mien so that when he goes to his nasty little hutch in the City and glares at his neurotically blinking little screen and barks into his cellular telephone for another tranche of lead futures or whatever , he comes over as just a trifle more macho than we all know him to be . |
| 4 | ‘ He goes for his first walk at 10am . |
| 5 | But when Brian goes to see them he goes with his first wife , who they call Granny . |
| 6 | A shadow , as the name implies , is someone who follows another person about all day as he goes about his normal work . |
| 7 | From now on , as he goes about his nocturnal perambulations , he leaves a smelly trail behind him . |
| 8 | Where he becomes ridiculous is in his desperate ambition to be part of the working class , striking a rather pathetic figure as he sits in his ministerial office with his trade union banner behind his head . |
| 9 | It seems to him , as he sits in his little white room , on a plain elm chair , at a plain oak table , with a view of green leaves outside the plain square window , and a plain old-fashioned black portable typewriter waiting beneath his fingers , that the purpose of all this massive display of hardware is clear : it is to overawe the minds of men and to symbolize their subjugation . |
| 10 | Then , by birth and by upbringing , he offers in his own person a connection between the Czechoslovakia now beginning to resume its history after 20 years in the deep freeze and both the pre-war Republic and the experiment in state socialism that followed liberation from the Nazis . |
| 11 | The barrier is raised and he drives to his personal parking space next to the front entrance of the office block . |
| 12 | He fits in his taxing training and competing schedule with a demanding job as captain of the Life Guards . |
| 13 | In a letter of 1809 he refers to his five children . |
| 14 | He has natural speech/language experience to link all the signals he receives in his aural memory . |
| 15 | … when he chuses for his skilful Tongue |
| 16 | Do him justice , he looks after his own , or at least he sees to it no one but himself shall flay them or hang them . |
| 17 | So you John now Jonathan he 's only fifteen , I know he looks in his twenties , but he 's only fifteen and he 's done a lot of homework so it makes him late and it makes him uncomfortable and he 's fidgety because he knows he 's got to disturb us when he goes out , he does n't does n't enjoy disturbing us , so I have to make that clear to you . |
| 18 | In line with his unprescriptive manner of teaching about how to develop contemplative life which is governed by his awareness of the intensely individual nature of discretionary achievement , Hilton is deliberately leaving his terms open , or using those likely to be directly applicable to actives , so that the recipient should not be constrained by definitions as he develops in his contemplative life . |
| 19 | When asked to be more specific about his " unethical " behaviour , Anderson is extremely uncooperative : Anderson 's initiation and subsequent withdrawal of this topic repays our attention not only because it is a striking example of the problems he causes through his disorderly conversational behaviour but also because , like his earlier reference to the linguistic paradox , it suggests that Anderson enjoys " playing " with language , a point which will be returned to later . |
| 20 | Yet the whole image of Xanadu is the poet 's personal creation , as he connects the practical knowledge of nature that he holds in his conscious mind , with his less readily available powers of creativity which he stores in his subconscious mind . |
| 21 | And he wonders at his own sanity when he hears of the wealth of some of his rivals . |
| 22 | Sometimes he writes about his native Ireland , sometimes he does n't — but that is not the point . |
| 23 | This sensibility for integrating aspects of contemplative with active life is also manifest in the Livre de Seyntz Medecines written by Henry Duke of Lancaster ; in it he writes about his own sense of that mortal sin for which Christ the healer supplies remedies , having beaten death in that tournament where he " turned our sorrow into joy and overcame death with death " . |
| 24 | ‘ I have explained both in previous chapters and during our programmes , ’ he writes in his best-selling book which accompanies the series , ‘ that from the yoga viewpoint , all life is sustained by a force which the Yogis have named prana . |
| 25 | Similarly , the sentence-grammarian can not remain immured from the discourse he encounters in his daily life . |
| 26 | He very much admired the poetry of Ebenezer Elliott , the Corn Law Rhymer , that is , a poet who helped to lead the opposition to the laws which kept the price of bread artificially high , and said ‘ None of us have done better than he has at his best ’ . |
| 27 | Will the hon. Gentleman tell the constituent of mine who is over 21 and earns £50 for a 40-hour week why he has taken a greater percentage of the young man 's earnings than he has from his right hon. and hon. Friends who go to the City and , for part-time work , earn hundreds of thousands of pounds ? |
| 28 | has children which he has by his first wife , in my view and in the view of the great majority of people in this country |
| 29 | He has among his own ranks the formidable figure of Michael Hesletine , understood to be lobbing for the head of a super ministry of Environment and Industry , in a slimmed down Cabinet . |
| 30 | He mourns from his lone place |